On this occasion, it has seemed best
to place the preliminary view in Ch. 1, and thither one recommends anyone
seeking a coverage of our concerns in this volume. Here let it simply be noted
that truth is not mocked for nothing, either in purpose or in result! When this
world prefers the delirium so often associated with sickness, to the dynamic of
truth, the power of God, the grace of His salvation and the goodness and mercy
of His Gospel in Jesus Christ, the only exponent with power and person to match
the need and cover the case, both of His own authenticity and man's need, there
are payments. Like rent, when you live on borrowed premisses, these continue;
and as when a tenant prefers not to pay, they mount, are augmented, interest is
added, and despite lack of interest in paying it, even in repentance, the world
thus is

harassed by debts unthinkable,

unwilling to receive the coverage
from Christ in unsearchable riches poured out in pardon,
through His death,

averse from the gift of grace and
the adoption to His family, through His resurrection,

and so facing truth not as a friend,
but as a firing squad.

In this volume, we follow the
mixture of delusion and divine dynamic, as the Author of man and history, brings
the final touches to the painting which once, a matter of gore and grace at
Calvary, now becomes a mixture of human ferocities as man unbalanced and far
from his Rock, works out his own damnation, with fear and trembling, with pride
and arrogance, with hope misplaced and dreams that are deadly.